High Country News

Frack forward

Wyoming's tough new hydraulic fracturing rules are meant to keep federal regulators at bay.

by Cally Carswell, Oct 05, 2010
The bone collectors

In Colorado’s Gunnison River Basin, wildlife managers are clamping down on out-of-control antler gatherers in order to make life easier for deer and sage grouse.

by Jodi Peterson, Jun 23, 2008
Wyoming wind woes

A collage of images from Wyoming's wind country, where turbines are sprouting madly, and forces within the state are blowing back.

by Jonathan Thompson, Jan 01, 2010
Wind Resistance

Wyoming is one of the best places in the world to generate power from wind. But the wind rush is running into opposition from greens, and the fossil fuel industry.

by Jonathan Thompson, Dec 15, 2009
Audio: High Country Views, episode 2

Jonathan Thompson and Cally Carswell talk sage grouse and states' rights.

by Cally Carswell, Mar 23, 2010
The messy mix of energy and sage grouse

No one knows how wind energy will impact sage grouse. But many greens aren't ready to take any chances.

by Jonathan Thompson, Dec 17, 2009
Battle for the core of Wyoming

Wyoming's sage grouse protection strategy gives fossil fuel elbow room while leaving wind energy out in the breeze.

by Jonathan Thompson, Dec 15, 2009
Strange bedfellows make a grazing deal in Idaho

Anti-grazing activist Jon Marvel makes a deal with ranching magnate J.R. Simplot, allowing cattle to continue to graze on federal land in Idaho

by Ray Ring, Oct 03, 2005
Not all government programs need cutting

The Conservation Reserve Program has encouraged millions of acres of idled farmland to be used as wildlife habitat, but now it may be plowed under by a budget-cutting Congress.

by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Oct 12, 2011
Crying 'fowl'

Enviros say the feds aren't playing fair when it comes to the imperiled sage grouse

by Jodi Peterson, Feb 20, 2008